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The three dimensions of a flower
To better understand the evolution of flowers, a research team in biology from Université de Montréal , the Montréal Botanical Garden, and McGill University (Daniel Schoen, Biology) have succeeded in using photogrammetry to quickly and precisely build, in three dimensions, a model of a flower from two-dimensional images.
Photogrammetry is commonly used by geographers to reconstruct the topography of a landscape. However, this is the first time that scientists have used the technique to design 3D models of flowers in order to better study them.
They results of their experiment were published in October in the journal New Phytologist.